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Comment by j4yav | Hacker News Reader

Really interesting content, but its almost even more amazing how many ads they were able to squeeze in there at least on mobile.

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And furthermore, the content was from a guy (Tim Morgan) who answered a question on Quora (linked at the bottom of the article). So Gizmodo just copies it and puts lots of ads around it. I don't understand the modern internet.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-fighter-jet-lock-onto-and-k...

If anything, I think it's worth asking Dang to change the link on the page to be this one – it's rather bad that this person's work appears to being just ripped off.

I sent email asking him to change it.

Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-tar.... Thanks all!

Edit: changed back, explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27488965

Looks like the ads have locked onto you. Perhaps try some evasive manoeuvres.

I run a newsletter. We swore to find the least ad spammed website when we cover current news and link out. It’s getting more difficult by the day.

On Android you can use a private DNS service, for example nextdns.io which will block all advertisement on the page for you. I wouldn't be surprised if iOS would have the same option.

I run PiHole (DNS-based ad-blocker) on my home network, as the DNS is given out trough DHCP all my devices gets less ads, including iOS.

The thing that most irritates me about those sites is the video box about halfway down the page that becomes sticky for a bit after you pass it on mobile. I have to scroll down until it goes away, then slowly scroll back up until just before it appears again to continue reading. It’s absolutely maddening.

iOS to be specific. On android we have proper adblocking with uBlock origin. So much about apple and privacy.

I had this concern before I switched to iOS. Turns out you can install content blockers for Safari. Plus iOS supports DoH natively so ads are pretty much non existent on my iOS devices.

It's very helpful. Firefox on Android with ublock origin is still the best as blocker on mobile but it's nice to have eg wipr on Safari.

Did you not get ads on the article? I’m on iOS and every other paragraph had one. Checked on android with uBlock and there aren’t any. I installed “Firefox focus”, supposedly blocks ads, I guess on the network level. Which iOS adblocker do you use?

How does DoH help you avoid ads?

Yeah, I always just go straight to an archive site when I see a Gizmodo link.

https://archive.is/MGCOA

Annoyed me as well. I changed to reading mode (icon on right side of Firefox mobile address line). Think that got rid of them.

I came to say the same thing - at one point only 10% of the screen was article text.

What a god awful website.

there are adblocker apps for both iOS and Android. Highly recommended

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